The Working-Class Studies Association (WCSA) aims to develop and promote multiple forms of scholarship, teaching, and activism related to working class life and cultures.
“The breadth of writing is outstanding—as co-editor Jeanne Brynner notes in her introduction, the age span of contributors ranges from recent graduates in their twenties to elders in their nineties. The anthology […]
In case you missed it here’s a great interview with Classic Reds author, Jack Heffron on WVXU 91.7 Cincinnati Edition.
The Cincinnati Reds have played more than 20,000 games over their 150-year history, but a pair of authors compiled what they view as the 50 best. Classic Reds: The 50 Greatest Games in Cincinnati Reds History pulls games from […]
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Find out more about Blanton’s Browns: The Great 1965-69 Cleveland Browns.
Emerging Civil War reviews Crossing the Deadlines: Civil War Prisons Reconsidered edited by Michael P. Gray.
“This outstanding volume is a great read and engaging exploration of a field of Civil War study too often neglected.”—Emerging Civil War
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“Following a poetry workshop in collaboration with Chautauqua Institution, the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University, Jamestown Public Schools and Clymer Central School, students from the local school districts were featured in the recently released poetry anthology book, Speak a Powerful Magic: Ten Years of the Traveling Stanzas Poetry Project.”
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Carol Mundy welcomes David Nolin, author of Discovery and Renewal on Huffman Prairie, Where Aviation Took Wing. The book follows the history of the land that is now known as Huffman Prairie and Wright’s Flying Field. Looking at it from before Ohio was a state to today as a National Park’s Heritage Site with it’s restored […]
The Journal of American History reviews Interpreting American History: The New South, edited by James S. Humphreys.
From their March 2019 issue:
“This collection provides a comprehensive and lucid overview of the historical and intellectual literature associated with the group of Americans known as southerners.”
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Don’t miss this great interview with Zoar author Kathleen Fernandez by CantonRep.com.
“Former Zoar historical site manager Kathleen M. Fernandez knew there was a need for an in-depth history of the Separatist communal society long before she penned her new book, Zoar: The Story Of An Intentional Community.
Despite the Zoar Society of Separatists’ relatively lengthy existence […]
The Spring 2019 issue of Civil War Book Review looks at Angela Zombek’s Penitentiaries, Punishment, and Military Prisons: Familiar Responses to an Extraordinary Crisis during the American Civil War.
“A powerfully researched comparative study of prisons and punishment in mid-nineteenth century America.”
The full article can be found here.
The Spring 2019 issue of Civil War Book Review has a great write-up of Paul Taylor’s “The Most Complete Political Machine Ever Known”: The North’s Union Leagues in the American Civil War.
“In twelve well-designed, masterfully researched, and accessibly written chapters that trace the Union League movement from its antebellum antecedents to its various Reconstruction Era iterations, Paul […]
